2024 Round Up: Favourite Biographies & Memoirs

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Updated January 8, 2025
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Burn book : a tech love story
Swisher, Kara
Paper Book
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news....
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher.
Paper Book
Part One of a Two Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's voice reverberates with the grit and depth that made her famous' The New York Times THERE IS...
Didion & babitz
Anolik, Lili
Paper Book
An outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.
The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir
Dunne, Griffin
Paper Book
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan.
Grief is for people
Crosley, Sloane
Paper Book
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
Kingmaker : Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power
Purnell, Sonia
Paper Book
An electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power playersWhen Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and many downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic...
Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the...
PATRIOT
Navalny, Alexei.
Paper Book
'Mind-blowing ... one extraordinary read' EMILY MAITLIS 'The greatest political figure of his generation' OBSERVER 'Part memoir, part diary, a political manifesto, a darkly funny adieu' BEN MACINTYRE 'Patriot will be seen as a historic text'...
Question 7
Flanagan, Richard, 1961- author. 
Paper Book
THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR * WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER * LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS * An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow...
Raising hare the heartwarming true story of an unlikely freindship
Dalton, Chloe 
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY...
Sonny Boy
Pacino, Al.
Paper Book
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by...
Travelling : on the path of Joni Mitchell
Powers, Ann
Paper Book
An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian "A powerful portrait of Joni Mitchell" Irish Independent "Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than most to...
We will not be saved
Nenquimo, Nemonte
Paper Book
** Publishing in the US as WE WILL BE JAGUARS**'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON'One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of...

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